Besides unemployment, an even larger economic crisis faces the Obama administration with many homeowners facing foreclosure and banks, burdened with bad assets, unable or unwilling to lend money.

• 除了失业率外，奥巴马政府面对的是更大的经济危机，许多有房者面临房子被没收的危险，许多被不良资产重压的银行不能或不敢发放贷款。